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Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we do not begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I do not have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it is more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I do not think it works that way, and I have been watching this for a longtime.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They are lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it is like we are downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that is the thing that worries me.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

I think you can not really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it is New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can not escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.